Digging with the drill is boring. Digging with a rocket launcher battery is fun. Okay, I wouldn't do it on a resource node, but for the base's basement this is awesome What you don't see on the pics is the up and down thrusters. It is a fully functional, armed and dangerous shuttle.
This, is why i love games like this... Even though, no tech has been implementetd, new stuff is being invented out of the blue ♥
I like the idea of specialized vessels Digging with rocket launchers is fun, but drilling with vessel could be fun to. I wish we could add one or more "drill tool" to vessels... but maybe this looks like SE too much ... I did it too to bury my base, but there's no real need for it ; it's just "decorative". It's quite a pity that there's no real need to protect our bases ; you can build a base with no walls ! Construction is, at the moment, much too decorative. Once you capture the drone base, you're done with danger (plant monsters are not a problem) With greater challenge, more attacks or more powerfull enemies, less resources (bombing from vessel for example) you would really have to protect your base. If you can't build walls, cause you're missing resources, you bury your base.
Yep quite, the only issue I found with that method especially if you intend to use the digged space is the bits and pieces of rocks that stay behind just hanging in midair… I also found that vessels don’t travel quite so well in such areas as it seem that the game doesn’t recognize the area as empty like if you did it with the drill tool. Yes I would much prefer if there was a digging machine or vessel other than the hand drill….
I have no problem flying into the holes with this small vessel, that I created with its rocket launhers. I can even turn around in the narrowest possible tunnel I dug. Oh wait, that was with the even more compact design with 6 rocket launchers
